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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943
Professors Should Remember Students Lack Time For an Extensive Review
University students are this week trying to prepare for one of the toughest final weeks they have ever faced. They must attend classes all this week and next Monday, and then start Tuesday in tackling tests which have been crammed into half the original time-four days instead of eight-formerly granted for final examinations.
The shortening of the examination period could not be helped. The administration of the University is bending every effort to meet increasing demands on war-time education by placing the University on a three-semester basis, and the contraction of the current school year's calendar was the only means to regain time lost by a late start last fall.
Consider the case of the student, however. Some face the prospect of taking three examinations in one day, and a few have even four. The comprehensive study for which he has had time in former years will be impossible. True, the length of some examinations has been reduced, but any student knows that a two-hour test requires almost as much preparation as a three-hour one.
The Kansan is not complaining. We are merely pointing out that professors should realize the difficulties under which students are now working.
The Kansan also hopes that a crammed-up final week can be avoided next semester.
—B.C.
Excess Flag-Waving Tends to Debase True Patriotism
In wartime patriotism becomes a necessity if the nation is to continue to exist. Morale must be kept up; our thoughts, our every effort must be directed to the conflict. Our hatred must be focused on the enemy; our love and admiration must be concentrated upon the defenders of our country. It becomes the duty of every citizen, whatever his background or antecedents, to place one goal higher than all the rest, to subordinate all other activities to the realization of that goal. And in the heart of every citizen must be instilled the love of country and of home that breeds self-sacrifice upon the battlefield and in the factories and in the schools. This is patriotism.
In wartime the flag becomes a symbol — a symbol of the love we bear the defenders of our freedoms, a symbol of the hate we bear the tyrants who seek to destroy those freedoms. The flag becomes a symbol of all the things we seek to defend, our way of life, our customs, our traditions. The flag becomes a symbol of our gratitude to a freedom-loving past, of our faith in a martial present, of our hope in a peaceful future. This is patriotism.
In wartime we must have parades with colorful uniforms and beating drums. We must have soldiers in khaki and sailors in blue marching down the street behind the flag. We must have war songs and battle hymns. We must have blaring brasses and the shrill pipings of fives. And to thrill when the parade comes marching down the street, to feel a glow of pride when our soldiers and our sailors fill the avenue from side to side, to know a hundred mingled emotions when the jag is borne by—this is patriotism.
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Just Wondering
Why Navy classes cannot leave classrooms as shipshape as do the civilian students.
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And, yet, we must remain human beings. We must mingle intelligence with true patriotism. For patriotism alone is a heady wine that will intoxicate the best of us. We must retain our judgment, our standards, our scales of values. We must not blind our eyes with red, white, and blue bandages. To disregard the rights of others, to have no sympathy or pity, to be relentless, ruthless, hard, to be automats of a powerful state—is this patriotism?
Wartime is the time for true patriots but it is also the time for flagwavers. These are the people who dress their every desire in the red, white, and blue of our country's flag. They answer every question and question every answer with a flirt of the flag. They hold in contempt any criticism of "our" way of doing things. They are not the wise men; they are not the sane. They are not the makers of peace. They are not the builders, the dreamers. They are not the soldiers; they are not the fighters. They are the men who become drunk on the wine of patriotism. They are the men who cannot see that everything cannot be dressed in bunting. Is this patriotism?
-J.G
A flag is easily soiled. A flag cannot be trailed in the dust and in the filth of gutters and still remain pure and spotless. A flag is a symbol, but used too often it becomes a hollow mockery. You cannot drape it about everything and expect it to remain sacred. It is not a magic cloth to transform jackals into heroes, evil motives into good, filth into purity. Cheapening the flag is not patriotism. It is desecration.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... John Conard
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
Ralph Coldren, Dean Sims,
Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
Society Editor ... Ruth Tippin
News Editor ... Dean Sims
Sunday Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Picture Editor ... Miriam Abele
A College Fable: Herbert LeVan, 1145 Indiana, is very anxious to get his finals finished. In fact, he is so anxious he is ready to avoid being quarantined at any cost. Realizing this, the boys at 1145 Indiana laid the groundwork for their practical joke by telling him that if three cases of measles were reported in one house it would be quarantined. There was already one boy from the house in the hospital.
The other day then, one of the boys came into the house and started packing some pajamas, a toothbrush, and other assorted articles into a small suitcase for one of the boys who was still up on the Hill.
"What are you doing?" asked Herbert, anxiously.
"Taking some things up to the hospital for him," was the reply.
"That makes two," muttered Herbert, alarm shining from his eyes.
A few minutes later, another boy called up with the information that that one more fellow (who was still up on the Hill, also) was at Watkins Memorial hospital and that someone should pack his things.
"I'm getting out of here before they quarantine the place," shouted Herbert, and packed two suitcases and a large box. He started down
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