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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940.
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Honor Student So What?
This is honor day for the students. This is the day on which grades are glorified. This is the day when names are printed and spoken which, during all of the rest of the year, are never seen except on library cards and grade "A" term papers.
Roderick Burton and Marilyn McBride who edited this sheet during the past year and yet made the best of their scholastic opportunities;
Mac Wynne, orator, debater and student;
Winifred Jameson, a Mortar Boarder and a self-supporting coed;
Irving Kuraner, secretary of the M.S.C. and Phi Beta Kappa;
Richard MacCann, editor of the Jayhawker and a student;
John Hocevar, who pitches baseball in the summer, peddles Coca Cola and still gets good grades:
But there should be added honor heaped on those who do something else beside live with their studies and still make the honor roll, those who do something for the University as well as for themselves. We present here some of the Mount Oread citizens who did something else during the past year beside being in the top 10 per cent of their class:
Velma Wilson who managed to head the W. S.G.A., take over the N.Y.A. office and still make good grades;
William Ward, composer, bass drummer and scholar:
Fred Eberhardt, track man, Relays committeeman and one of today's honor students;
Eugene Ricketts, lawyer, Phi Beta Kappa, and one of the Hill's working men.
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More Progressive Juvenile Institutions
According to recent state reports, the four institutions in Kansas for juveniles have blazed new trails in the last four years. Scorched in 1937 by a national survey which described them as among the worst in the country, the institutions now display several neat improvements in their systems.
These improvements have not resulted totally from the state's own initiative. In typically Kansas style, citizens seldom have made radical changes, seldom have moved by blitzkreigs, seldom have acquainted themselves with the inner workings of the state's administration. That they are thus characterized cannot be entirely their fault. Mr.Average Jayhawker has had no great Missourian political scandal to jolt him from his placid straight ticket. All the scandals, if there were any, were either hushed or nipped quietly in early bud; therefore, no internal force existed to badger the conservative New England conscience toward an interest in state houses.
The searchlight came with the appointment of a strong advisory committee, composed of prominent Kansas citizens. Investigations brought numerous instances of how the state had failed to equip it wards for a normal return to society. The systems were not unlike schools of crime. Prior to 1937, the State Reformatory at Hutchinson broiled hardened criminals, two-time violators, and first offenders
all in the same melting pot. No provisions had been made for a twelve-month term of school or for required psychological tests of the young misdemeals. Before 1937, the Topeka Boy's Industrial School had no well organized intramural groups as it has today. Too, physical examinations were under no strict rule. At the Beloit Girl's Industrial School, dairy facilities were inadequate. Leisure time activities, were sparse. The Atchison State Orphan's home had no program for sending its students, beyond the ninth grade, to public schools, nor had they a program for regular medical examinations. In these institutions, also, political expediency trammed out any major teaching of practical Christian living, for such spiritual guidance of the young inmates submerged itself to their hasty release in the minds of officials.
Gradually, these ills have met cures. No juvenile houses in Kansas can provide sociological material for a Stowe or a Steinbeck novel, and Kansans should rejoice in that. The rejoicing, however, might well be mixed with a pang of regret, for the primary impetus toward betterment came from an outside group. That an external force had to prod statesmen, politicians, and citizens to action surely cannot mean that the state is socially progressive. Kansas should put her houses to order under her own stimulants.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Thursday, April 18, 1940
APPLICATIONS FOR DANCE MANAGER: Applications, with a list of qualifications, are due at the office of the Adviser of Men, room 1, Frank Strong Hall, before 5 o'clock on Thursday April 25.—C. H. Mullen, president of Men's Student Council.
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GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE: All girls who have completed the Girl Reserve Training Course may get their notebooks at the Education office at any time.—Ruth Moritz.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Dr. R. I. Canuteson.
APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENT MANAGER: Applications, with a list of qualifications are due at the N.Y.A. office by 5 o'clock Thursday, April 25. Applicants must conform to eligibility requirements. Need will be considered—C. H. Mullen, President Men's Student Council.
EDUCATION FACULTY: There will be a meeting of the Education Faculty April 23 at 3:30 in Room 115 Fraser.—Dean R. A. Schwegler.
SASNAK CLUB: There will be a regular meeting at 7:30 this evening in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Mr. C. S. Robinson, assistant superintendent of schools at Kansas City, Missouri will speak on matters of projects of a Physical Educator." All Physical Education majors are asked to attend. Gene Billups, president.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet tomorrow at 4:30 at Henley House. Floyd Estes will speak on Mahatma Gandhi. All are invited.—Gordon Brigham, Corinne Martin, co-chairmen.
WESLEY FOUNDATION PARTY POSTPONED: The Wesley Foundation skating party, scheduled for Friday has been canceled. A party will be held on the following Friday in the church basement—Russell H Barrett, publicity chairman.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Pine room-Evelyn Longerbeam, Chancellor.
SENIORS: Don't delay in placing your orders for announcements now on sale at the University business office. The deadline is April 27.-John Oakson, chairman.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By Marilyn McBride
By Ye Ed of Thereabout
During the lighting trouble at the Pachacamac self-admiration rally the other night, a pair of Pachies ran over to some bushes and found a student with a rasp in his hand. Of course, he didn't have anything to do with the electrical difficulties, but according to the Pachies, he could have. (Editor's note: we can testify that Irving Kuraner stood near us
during the entire "rally.") The truth is that the student with the file did not have dirty politics in mind; he was simply filing his toe nails.
You have to toe the line in one professor's class. This particular person will flunk a student if he turns in a quiz written on anything but the regulation "quiz books." More, if your attitude isn't to his liking he'll count you absent for the day just to reform you. Students consider this professor's class a standing joke because it takes a little bit of everything but intelligence to get a grade in it.
Comes the news that Japan is constructing giant battleships. Since Japan has no president and the Emperor doesn't like fishing it would seem that they meant business with them. Naturally, the U.S. will have to build right along with the little sons-of—of—the Rising Sun. It's getting so a citizen can't afford either to live or to die.
Regardless of what both political parties have said about the other presidential candidate, Bob McKay or Bill Farmer would make a good president on any man's student council. Sometimes we wonder about the representatives but they are probably as good as the state or national representatives—just average human beings, more failible than infallible.
Nazi occupation of Denmark really struck Americans a blow. Countess Barbara Hutton Hauwgwitz-Reventlow's divorce from her Danish husband will have to be postponed for a year or two. This had destroyed every American's moral right to read about "Bab's" latest marriage adventure.
Looks like Frankenstein Roosevelt is rigging us up a monster to fight.
Time states: "To the U. S. people, President Roosevelt sounded like a bystander who is tired of talking at Adolph Hitler."
We are tired of President Roosevelt talking—period.
Defacers In High Gear---- Pioneer Cemetery Dies At Hands of Populace
By Bill Koester, c'42
The pioneer dead would turn over in their graves. That's the pioneer dead of Lawrence, of course, who were buried in the memorial cemetery a mile southwest of the campus. What we mortals have done to their last resting place would hardly meet with their approval if they could know about it. slingshots rifle
Once a plot of ground hallowed by the memory of many of the brave men and women who offered up their lives as sacrifice to the blood-lust of Quantrill, the graveyard now is an object of mild repulsion to those who dislike things in disarray.
A sign, apparently put up on the cemetery grounds by a caretaker many years ago, remains there in vain admonition today. It reads, "No
Picnickers, children at play, scavenger hunters, and general "edifice-defacers" have literally torn up the site until now it has lost all its former beauty and historical significance. Tombstones have been transplanted from one grave to another, or carted off completely as souvenirs, by unthinking persons whose presence there might not have been possible had not the dead they have molested died, that Lawrence might salvage from Quantrill's raid remaining remnants of life to reconstruct and build itself again into a thriving town. Holes in the ground and charred ashes left by students on steak fries have ruined the pastoral loveliness of the ground. Even graves have been dug into to make pits for weiner roasting.
slingshots, riffes, or defacing tolerated on this property." How sad that human beings have ceased to obey signs!
And so a real beauty spot of Lawrence, one with part of the great tradition of this community as an inspirational factor in its creation, gives up to the onslaught of irresponsible moderns as the heroes it cradles recapitulated to the bad men of the "Old West."
Pro-Arte Quartet From Belgium Will Play Here May 2-3-4
One of the highlights of this year's Music Week will be the three performances of the Pro-Arte String Quartet from Brussels, Belgium. This group will play in Fraser theater on Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoon, May 2, 3, 4.
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The appearance of the quartet here was made possible by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Cambridge, Mass., who early this year made arrangements with Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts to pay half the expenses.
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