PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1939 Kansan Comment Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins Believed in Youth Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins believed in us. She based her philosophy of life on a sincere faith in the college youth of this University. Her generous spirit found expression in gifts to the University, and to the city of Lawrence. Our campus is indebted to Mrs. Watkins for its student hospital, nurses home, and two women's dormitories. Besides financing these buildings, Mrs. Watkins established several scholarships for worthy students. Well-beloved by students and fellow citizens, Mrs. Watkins was a modest benefactress who was known by her actions and unselfish open-handedness. All who hear of her in the years to come will realize as past generations of University students have realized that she was truly a great lady and patroness. Following the American dream, Mrs. Watkins chose education as the best answer to the problems of a democracy, and used her wealth to further its interests. She ever sought to transform desires into actualities in planning for a greater University. Education is the foundation of democracy, and as students we must achieve an intellectual curiosity, a zest for living, a courageous outlook, and a sensitive appreciation for the excellences as well as an acute awareness of the problems to be solved in our democracy by our generation. Despite our doubts and fears concerning our future, there is an undeniable inspiration in knowing that members of preceding generations are trusting in us. We must justify that trust. I.S.A. Closes 1938 Progress Faculty supervision and sponsorship, necessary before any student organization can be assured of permanency, was written this week as the final chapter of the Independent Students Association's 1938-39 log book. The acceptance by Henry Werner, men students' adviser, of the position of faculty sponsor climaxes a year of sensational success for the organization, and brightens prospects for a continuation of the I.S.A.'s rapid development. Nearly 3,000 Hill students are unaffiliated. Their decisions to remain independent hinged primarily upon financial insecurity of the desire for more personal freedom. And with the desire or necessity to remain a bard comes limited social life. Here lies the purpose of the I. S.A.-to provide unaffiliated students with widened social opportunity. While its growth was phenomenal during the past year—the membership skyrocketed from almost nothing to 600 in one semester—the L.S.A. visualizes greater success next year. The leaders point out that work heretofore has been strangled by financial difficulties. With a reasonable membership fee, grants from W.S.G. A. and M.S.C., and CSEP help next fall, the organization shows every promise of an increasing fulfillment of social needs of independent students. A prediction that next year's membership will reach 2,000—only months back a prophey that would have been utterly ridiculous—now seems reasonably possible. In any event, all facts point to a banner year for the independents and to a new social life for the Hill's unaffiliated. A further problem of the past was that although faculty members gave generous co-operation, the I.S.A. had no single individual who could be looked upon as a sponsor. Experiences at other schools, particularly the Universities of Oklahoma and Texas, have shown the advantages of faculty sponsorship. With Henry Werner at the helm, however, the I.S.A. has solved its last immediate problem. Diplomas Aren't Everything Next week the University will present degrees to more than one thousand students. These diplomas, a combination of art and sheepskin, will tell who graduated from where and when. They will not tell how much the student learned in college. Apparently, though, unless he cribbed or paid ghost-writers, he did learn enough to pass his courses. The diploma, evidence that the student spent four years in college, and that he successfully filled all the various requirements for a degree, should connote an interest in scholarship, in the search for truth. No graduate should overestimate the worth of his diploma. It has only a slight connection with early education. It represents the first step in the educational process. On the other hand, one should not underestimate the value of a college degree. Today while it is almost invaluable in obtaining a job, is is also significant from the point of view of prestige that implies obligation. A thousand K.U. graduates with diplomas in their hands is no insignificant state asset these days. Chancellor Will Return An habitually mock-cynical student body was touched deeply at the University convoction Monday morning when Chancellor E. H. Lindley spoke an unpretentious and sincere farewell to his administrative offices and to the students he has counselled. The cheering note of his speech, however, came when he reminded the group that, after his vacation, he would return to the campus to teach. For, although the University will feel the loss of this conscientious executive, it cannot help but gain by having him in his old chair as professor. The next year will be one of vacation for Mr. Lindley; but during his world tour he will assimilate knowledge and prepare new details for his course in philosophy. Study in Europe is nothing new for the retiring chancellor, for during his middle-age he visited the universities at Jena, Leizig, and Heidelburg, adding to his knowledge in his favorite field of psychology. The new tour will refresh old backgrounds. The materials of Mr. Lindley's new course will include "a design for living" which, he declares, "will be discussed in one-syllable words." But whether couched in one or five-syllable words, Mr. Lindley's practical, youthful philosophy will reach the hearts of his many followers. The University is still to be enriched by his presence and his precepts. Students Might Improve Reading Midnight oil and final-week are as inseparable as Kansas and elm trees or night and day. For generations students have attempted an entire semester's work the night preceding their final in a course. Tradition and ineffective study methods are the reason for last minute cramming sessions. Most students not only do not know the correct study procedure, but they do not know how to read. Reading specialists say that 30 per cent of the college students who wear glasses would be more greatly benefited by corrective eye exercises to improve their reading methods. Such experts maintain that the average reading rate should be raised approximately 300 words a minute. The School of Education will pioneer in remedial reading work this summer when it opens its reading institute. Although the $10 fee will limit registration, satisfactory results might make the institute available to all University students next year. Each University student should have the opportunity to take a reading test. If he is a slow reader, or if coordination of eye muscles is defective, he should enroll in the institute. If the reading institute became a permanent part of the University, the grade average would rise, and students would spend less time studying. The fast reader is the efficient reader. Finals would be less terrifying, if students could read. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol 36. Sunday, June 4, 1939 No. 162 Notice due at Chennaier's Office at 11 a.m. on date of publication and 11 a.m. 3rd Saturday for Sunday issue. BOOK EXCHANGE: The W.S.G.A. Book exchange is open to purchase used books - Helen Pierce, manager. JIAHWAY CO-OP CLUB. There will be a meeting near at 2 o'clock. Any many interested in a cooperative rooming and boarding house for next year is invo- ted in attend. The meeting will not be long.-Donaln Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas NOTICE TO FACULTY MEMBERS. All faculty members employed on a nine months basis are requested to call at the Business Office, on or before June 10, to sign the pay roll for June—Karl Kloer, Bobsar. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Publisher Editor in Chief Edith Forsyth Murton McBride Jacques Meyer Marlene Meyer James Murray Feature Editors Managing Editor Harry Hill Editorial Staff Wait Memeinger Claremont, Rebecca Burkeon News Editorial Clairemont Telegram Editor Womie Huff Sunday Editor Stewart Jones Sunday Editor Nina Rose Makeup Editor Millard Ross and Harry Bartson Society Editor Mary Louise Randall Society Editor Margaret Editorial Staff Publisher Horeld Addington News Staff Business Manager Edwin Browne Advertising Manager Orman Womanaker Expect 1,300 in Summer; Reading Course Offered Subscription rates, In advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school year except Monday and Saturday, in entered as second class office. Received from the office of Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Students of the thirty-seventh University summer session, which opens June 14, will be offered for the first time courses to improve Approximately 1,300 are expected at the session. According to Dean R. A. Schwegler, director of the summer session, and Dean of the School of Education, students with low grades in reading have had inferior methods of reading training in earlier years of school. Children from the Lawrence public schools will be housed in Oread high school to serve as a clinic for summer school students. Paralleling the reading courses, but not connected with the summer session will be a Reading Institute headed by Bert A. Nash. The institute will run from June 26-July 1, and will acquaint teachers with new developments in reading instruction. No University credit is given for this course, but a certificate of attendance will be given to all who enroll and attend the full week. Reading Institute Another emphasis will be placed notes'n discords by John Randolph Tye Commenting on the fact that Walter Huxman had deserted Hutchinson for Topaek, the Garden City Daily Telegram said: "Now Hutchinson will know how Fredonia felt when Harry Woodding bought a farm in Maryland." Yes, and we know how Neodesha is going to feel when they read that their favorite son is from Fredonia. Not long ago the Syracuse Daily Orange referred to the Kansan as "the grass-root of Midwestern college journalism" It's hard to tell whether its praise or an insult. - when Lewis Gannett, book-reviewer for the New York Herald-Tribune visited the campus last week, he surprised us by quoting at length from one of William Herbert Carruth's poems, something we dare say that few K.U. students, even Carruth poetry prize winners can do. We'd like to be around next year just so we could his Robertson after each issue of the Sour Owl comes off the press, but then, on second thought, there probably will be students to do the job satisfactorily. Educational note: A rapid survey of the exchanges from around the state discovers only one commencement orator who has neglected to read the graduates that commencement is the beginning and not the end. on courses for elementary school teachers. Until two years ago, anyone with a high school education who could pass county tests was eligible to teach rural school. Since then, however, rural schools have a minimum of two years of college work. The summer session has introduced courses to take care of teachers making up their work. For this reason, approximately three-fourths of the entire enrollment this summer will be teachers already in service or those intending to teach. The active play program set up and supervised last year by Dr. F. C. Allen and Miss Elizabeth Dum- department of physical education, Games, tours of the University, tennis and golf tournaments, hiking, and picnies will all be a part of the school activities. Graduate work in physical education is being offered for the first time this summer. Preliminary enrollment for master's degree work in the school indicates that many students are advantage of the newly opened field. Maximum number of hours to be carried in the Graduate school for this summer will be nine. For all other schools, the limit will be eight. Visiting teachers for the session will be Dr. Knowles, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. L. W. Brooks, Wichita public schools; Dr. Leonard B. Wheat, Chicago University; Miss Mitchell, Reading Laboratory of Thorndyke; Professor Gates of Columbia University; John Jacobs, Lawrence public schools; and Dr. Felix Ulrich, University of Texas. Thirty-four To Attend Estes Park Conference So far, 34 from the University plan to attend the Estes Park Conference of the W.Y.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. June 9 to June 19. Ellen Payne, Y.W. executive secretary, is the creative leather chairman and will plan for the afternoon and evening programs. John Hunt, former Y.M. executive secretary here, will be missed. He will be assisted by Irene Moll, Erl. The Jayhawkers will sleep and eat in a dormitory with the University of Denver delegates. Formerly the Kansans were housed alone. Paul Mortiz, c'39, is co-chairman of the Rocky Mountain Regional Student Christian Movement and will preside at all business meetings. Ann Jennings, a senior arts director, She will woll in the University next fall. Former Student Appears On Broadcasting Program Betty Ruth Smith, gr37, is at present appearing on the National Broadcasting network in "Backstage Wife" presented from Chicago every KANSAN CLASSIFIED ADS Phone K.U. 66 GOING ON A PICNIC? 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St. day, Monday through Friday, at 2 p.m. Miss Smith received the University acting award in 1837 for her presentation of Ann in "This Thing" Called Love." A member of Kappa Alpha Theta, social security, she belonged to the Drama Club and had roles in "Olympus two years ago. AT THE PATEE Robert Taylor and Maureen Q Sullivan in "The Crowd Roar" showing Trainer and Manger of the Rats. AT THE VARSITY Jesse James was neither captured nor killed by officers of the law and Tyrone Power demonstrates why. He plays the title role in Danny F. Zonuck's brilliant technicolor production. *Jesse James*, 10th Century-Fax, (Fox Studios), 2013. (Adapted from *The Legend of the Wild Dog* by Nancy Kellany and Kendra Reed Scott are also starred in the film.) AT THE GRANADA A caddisle moment from "It's a Wonderful World" in Claudette Colbert and James Stewart are currently to be seen on the Granada screen. AT THE DICKINSON A scene from "Young Mr. Lincoln" starring Henry Fonda and Alice Brady now showing at the Dickinson theatre thru Wednesday.