UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1941
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Drafting Room Remodeled
Remodeling of the drafting room in Marvin hall has been completed with the installation of new improved equipment under the direction of George G. Hood, professor of engineering drawing.
Flourescent lighting has replaced incandescent illumination. The new lighting system provides approximately 80 foot-candle power for each desk, as contrasted with 10 foot-candiepower for the old lighting sys-
Half College Grades Are Above 'B' Level
Flunks on the Wane--temp In addition to relieving eye strain, the new lights eliminate shadows and flickering that formerly bothered drafting students.
Did you know that almost 50 the College of Liberal Arts and less than 5 per cent are 'F's'? these figures are the figures released by Dean Paul B. Lawson.
Did you know that almost 50 per cent of the grades given in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are "A's" or "B's," and less than 5 per cent are "F's"? Unbelievable as it may seem,
The number of good grades has been steadily increasing and the number of flunks rapidly decreasing in the last 10 years. It used to be
Other improvements are adjustable stools, new desk tops, and cabinets for storing charts and models.
One trouble with most of us is that all too soon our train of thought reaches the caboose.
Stowe Series of Articles To Appear in Star
Leland Stowe, noted foreign correspondent who has probably observed more of the European war than any other man, will speak here on the community lecture course. March 19.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Beginning Monday, a series of 8 articles will appear in the Kansas City Star concerning his experiences in the Second World War. The articles are "War in Greece," "War in Africa," "Scandinavian Twilight," "Where Does Russia Stand?" "Hitler's Alternatives," "Britain's Alternatives," "Europe Looks at America," and "The War As I See It."
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Valtin—Out of the Night
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Hilton—Random Harvest
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Roberts—Oliver Wiswell
Spring—Fame is the Spur
Marquand—H. M. Pulham, Esq.
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that the little red cards on which the professors record the flunks filled drawer and half in the College file cabinets. Last semester's failures occupied only one-half of one of the drawers.
A survey during the last 4 years shows that in 1936-1937, 47.6 per cent of the grades given were "A's" or "B's" and only 5 per cent "F's". In the year 1937-1938, 49 per cent were "A's" and "B's" and 4.8 per cent "F's"; in 1938-39, 48.1 per cent were top ranking grades and 4.7 per cent failures; and in 1939-1940, 47.6 per cent were "A's" and "B's" and 4.6 per cent failures. This shows a decrease of $ A $ per cent in the flunking grades in the last four years.
Dean Lawson attributed the rising grades to two major factors.
First, the large number of scholarships granted by the University and the cooperative dormitories where grades must be kept up have had a very definite influence. Good scholars serve as a challenge to other students.
Second, the years of depression and hard times have made every parent and student want to get the full benefit of his money. Students are taking their school work more seriously and the number of "playbags" and "playgirls" is becoming fewer and fewer.
Leaders Are All Too Human
By DR. J. F. BROWN
The High School curriculum changes slowly and I presume most of my readers were forced as I was to study Carlyle or "Heroes and Hero Worship." Carlyle believed as did most of his contemporaries that the leaders, the heroes, made the history. And these leaders were born rather than made, and inspired individuals rather than normally reacting mortals.
Most of my readers probably followed Carlyle with courses which gave him the lie. These courses supposed that history made the leader, and that history itself was the necessary consequence of readjust-
ment in the socio-economic order. In extreme hands the viewpoint that the leader and history both were determined by the economic order or Marxism held sway. Don't you remember the high school debate topic "Does History make the Leader or Vice-versa."
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Hitler's Personality Important
From the modern viewpoint both positions are one-sided. While it is true that the freedom of the leader the nature of the social order, it is likewise true that many historical events depend on the leader's biography. Thus personality regains a place in history. But not its romantic one. And similarly the idea of rigid economic determinism has been abandoned. In other words Marx must be tempered by psychology. The psychological drive for power on the part of the leader is as important as is the force of the economic system on his ideas. The books of John Gunther show how much the personality—and often the thwarted, distorted personality—of the leader plays a role.
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As a psychologist the question I am most frequently asked these days is, "Is Hitler crazy?" And my answer is "Yes and No." I am not trying to be flippant. The answer is quite meaningful. From the norms and ideals of a functioning democracy, Hitler is crazy or close to it. From the norms and ideals of National Socialism, he is crazy like a fox. Look at the record.
Several psychologists and psychoanalysts have studied Hitler's personality and shown how it has affected his choice of policies and his
tastes. Similar studies of Mussolini, Stalin, Daladier, Chamberlain, and Laval come to the same conclusion. Compare Chamberlain and Churchhill as men and compare their policies.
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The desire for leadership is a desire for power and power may be used to good or bad ends. All leaders, in that they are leaders, differ from the completely "normal personality". No one who is completely adjusted wants to be a leader in the sense of a Duce or Fuehrer.
Democracy Chooses Leaders
In a democracy leaders are chosen. What can be done to prevent leaders whose drive for power comes from depeated and even unconscious motives of revenge and aggression.
The British psychoanalysis Edward Glover has suggested a required psychoanalysis for all would - be statesmen. Although at the present time this suggestion is Utopian indeed, at some future time it might be undertaken. Even at the present time through psychiatric examination of all civil service candidates could accomplish much. Psychologists believe that emotional adjustment is more important even than intelligence for leaders. Maybe the future will see the elimination from public service of those to whom the present army of psychartists refer to as "whacky."
Lonnecker to Work in K. C.
Paul Lonnecker, who has just received his B.S. degree from the School of Business, has gone to Kansas City where he will be employed by the Thompson-Hayward Chemicompany.
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