TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944 Wide Training Necessary For College Students Last spring, Dean Lawson, Chancellor Malot, and other University officials attended several conferences in which new methods of education were discussed. Among these was the idea of having more faculty advisers for the students, and outlining their courses for them, thus allowing the freshmen no elective subjects at all. In direct contrast to this, a letter from a student was received by the editor of the Daily Kansan this morning, advocating the direct opposite. According to this correspondent, lower classmen should be permitted to start work on their major subject as soon as they matriculate in the University, and not "waste" time on supposedly irrelevant subjects. He stated that the "average young man who enrolled in college is interested in a profession." What he does not stop to realize is that nearly all the professional schools already function on the basis which he suggests. The School of Fine Arts, the School of Medicine, the School of Engineering and Architecture, the School of Law, the School of Business, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Education—all of these allow the freshman to start in immediately upon his chosen field. These schools cover most of the professions in which most students select. If he merely wants cialized field, he is free to enroll in separate business colleges or to attend a vocational school. When a student intentionally enrolls in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, he usually does so to obtain a broad, general, cultural education, and expects to receive a bachelor of arts degree when he graduates. At the first, he relies upon older and more experienced judgment to select the courses he is required to take. Gradually he is allowed to choose more and more of the courses he is especially interested in. All departments have a maximum number of hours which students are allowed to enroll in, anyway, and these can usually all be taken during the junior and senior years. Since this is so, it would not do the student much good to take a great many courses in that department during his first two years as he would just have to fill his senior year with "unrelated" subjects, anyhow. The number of hours required in each division, such as 20 hours of science, is a purely arbitrary figure, it is true. Such divisional requirements might possibly be altered to good advantage in the future. The further a student progresses; however, the more he realizes the close relationship among all subjects. In addition to the educational viewpoint, most persons agree that there is nothing quite so boring, socially, as attempting to converse with a person who is versed in only one line and who can not carry on an intelligent conversation on any other subject. It is in college, generally speaking, that he obtains this cultural background. Malott Renorts on Fiscal Year Milton Report Gifts and grants totaling $256,423- 06 have come to the University during the past year, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced at the end of the fiscal year on July 1. In addition, an amount of $65,000 was received by income from gifts previ- ously received, as well as nine individual items or collections for museums and libraries on which values were not estimated. ANSAN COMMENTS Students Voice Objections To Divisional Requirements Editor's Note: Pertaining to a current question in educational circles, the following "Letter to the Editor" was received this morning. Although not in concordance with the Daily Kansan's opinion on the matter, it expresses an idea prevalent among students today. A fresman entering KU. finds himself or herself forced to take courses which the average person considers duplication of many high school subjects. Many new students, enthusiastic about college when they enter, become discouraged because they have to take numerous courses which they consider "old stuff." A thorough study of college diversional requirements would probably show that a case can be made for both sides of the issue of divisional qualifications. Certainly there are certain courses, such as English composition, which everyone should take because they are beneficial in any field that a person may major in. Nevertheless, it might be a good thing if the professors who make up your qualification requirements would take into consideration the fact that many of us are not the least bit interested in taking various courses which we do take in order to complete the 15 hours of a certain division. This is especially true today when so much specialization is going on. The tendency is for people to concentrate more and more upon one field of activity and they are not very interested in waitting their subjects. This will be especially true when the war is over, and those soldiers who are interested in higher education return to the college campuses. Therefore, the subject of three 15-hour divisions as a qualification at KU. might be a good subject for those gentlemen who construct our academic regulations to ponder over. There are probably still some who believe that a course which teaches the college student a little about everything is the desirable curriculum. Perhaps it is. But the average young student and the average young college man in the army is interested in a profession if they are to spend four years in college. Therefore, the authorities of this (continued to page four) Can You Picture KANSAS without Intercity Buses? his state's highways are doing their part for Victory. Last year bus lines carried over half of all the passengers that rode on public carriers. People in many communities must travel on buses because there is no other public transportation. These people are not traveling for pleasure. Most of them are selectees, military personnel, and war workers. Others are farmers, nurses, teachers—people in nearly every walk of life whose trips are essential to the national welfare. Overland Greyhound is putting all its efforts, experience and resources into helping perform the biggest transportation job of all time. 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Owner may have for proper description at the Navy V-12 office, and paying for advertising at the Kansan Office, Room 9, Journalism building. -6 Students Write UT Songs Students Write UT Songs Twenty-five dollars is being offered as a prize at the University of Texas for the best song submitted in a current contest under the direction of head, UT yell leader. Here in America more of us are still racing for our trains than are training for the race. University Daily Kansan Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS NEWS STAFF Editor/in-chief Managing editor ... DON'T HANDLE EDITORS editor ... KATI GORILLON BUSINESS STAFF Business manager LOIS ELAINE SCOTT Advertising manager BETTY JUNE CRAIG Mail subscription rates, from Sept. 18 to Feb. 19, 1945, outside Lawrence $2.35 plus tax and $1.00 postage. From Sept. 18 to July 1, outside Lawrence $4.04 plus $.08 tax and $2.00 postage. 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