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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1928
Band Earns Trip If Unedr Wage-Hour Law
No argument for support of the drive to send the University band to Washington, D.C. is more effective than a summary of the group's activities for a single week.
For example, consider the present week.
Monday, Tuesday and yesterday, the musicians reported at the stadium for drilling practice at 7:30 a. m. They drilled at 7:30 this morning and will repeat the rehearsal tomorrow morning and Saturday.
Last night, the band made one of its frequent appearances over KFKU, in a 15-minute broadcast. Later in the evening, the organization participated in the program over NBC's Blue network honoring the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the University.
This morning, the all-University conventation will see the band again in action. The musicians will play an important role in the Hobo Day celebration tomorrow and in the Homecoming rally tomorrow night. In addition, there will be a long rehearsal preceding the march of the bums. Further, the group will present its usual formations and numbers at Saturday's game. To climax a heavy week, Director Russell Wiley has called a special four-hour practice session Sunday.
Under the newly-adopted wage-hour law, the University hand, in this one week, would have earned a large share of the amount necessary to finance the proposed trip.
Harold Ickes recently made an inspection trip of the west coast. Was the secretary of the "interior going beyond his territory?
The people who wondered for almost twenty years who won the war are now wondering why they were in such a hurry to find out.
Stream Lining Education A la Stephen Leacock
Is our modern system of education eating up life? Are our college-trained business and professional men forsaking the classroom from five to ten years too late?
Stephen Leacock, famous humorous essayist and professor of English at McGill University, asks these questions in a pair of articles in the New York Times Magazine, answers them affirmatively, and proceeds to outline some common sense methods for reducing the number of years it takes to get an "education" in America. His suggestions are simple and direct, penetrating every division of the high school and liberal arts curriculum.
For instance, he would simplify spelling so that all sounds pronounced the same would be spelled the same. This alone would chop off approximately two years from the grade-school period. Then, he would strip the teaching of elementary mathematics of all the "puzzles" and "trick problems" now in vogue in the class room. Higher mathematics would be taught according to the student's intended profession.
The required memorization of all the innumerable oddities and irregularities of declension, conjugation, and construction of Latin and Greek would give way to emphasis upon the fundamentals of the language only. Modern languages would be taught through conversation rather than endless translation.
When it comes to the teaching of English literature, his own profession, he says, "Our teaching is largely an attempt to teach the unteachable, to substitute text knowledge for literary appreciation, and the question-and-answer of a written examination for that 'reading for reading's sake', which is the only literary training worthwhile."
As for history, Leacock recommends simply "a broad firm outline—what might be called a thorough smattering of history." Put in a few dates as pegs to hold it to the wall, he says, add a few exams as mechanical as the pegs, and beyond that, coax the pupil to turn loose and read and read and read.
Summarizing his criticism of the present system and his reasons for the need of a shortened educational period, Leacock writes, "Our school children move along in a system of one-year promotions, all advancing together . . thus, by the time the student has reached middle high school he has already joined a sort of 'convoy' that moves slowly down the widening stream of education, always at the pace of the showest. Any bright boy could strike out from the convoy like a motor-boat from among freighters.
By the time the heavy convoy reached its goal he'd have been there already for years, married, with one and one-half children, an established position, whiskers, debts, life. He would watch the convoy discharging its spectacles nephytes, thirty years old, timid in the daylight, shuddering at life, having lived thirty years on other people's money. That's a little exaggerated, but it's good enough.[24]
Comment
Students—Give Hobo Day A Shot in the Arm
The University administration has sanctioned Hobo Day once more—ON TRIAL. Tomorrow's Hobo Day is to be an experiment, a test to see whether students want the day for the activities connected with this oldest of University traditions or whether they use it for a half day holiday to spend elsewhere.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley has accepted as fact that students want to continue Hobo Day and has given his permission for a half day holiday Friday.
But if the University does not have enough loyal students to support this permission and give life to a real demonstration, there will be no more Hobe Days in the years to come—and this tradition will die, never to live again.
Student leaders have been working hard for the past few weeks trying to keep this tradition alive. A real Hobo Day and a good time for all who are connected with it has been planned for tomorrow. No man or woman who calls himself a loyal student of the University will fail to appear on the Hill tomorrow morning wearing a true hobo costume.
The "Mars to Mother Earth" program Sunday night, if it accomplished nothing else, demonstrated to the sponsors that the program was being heard by a sizeable audience.
The Chinese are still fighting. Maybe the Japanese ought to send them some missionaries to explain to them that, according to the rules of war, they are supposed to surrender.
Campus Opinion
DISAGREES
DISAGREES Editor, University Daily Kansan;
Emir, University Doya Romania.
The Daily Oklahoma that the wolves are after Coach A.D Lintkey in an an-
ticipation game.
I don't know whether this was an editorial or a signed article, but, whichever it was, in my opinion I didn't find it funny.
I think you have a good team and a good coach.
Your team needs a leader. Kammus Agatter
and I think well, win some games.
You may have noticed that Mr. Bible (one of the highest paid coaches) has not done so well this year, with his games now being played in place at Oklahoma University and is now with Nebraska is not so hot this year. I believe Grantland Rice stated in a recent article that a coach does exceedingly well to win 60 percent of his games in this season.
In view of the above, I think someone is poorly informed, using personal feelings or politics in the present. This is not a bad idea.
I hope you will publish this letter in the Kansai feel that you probably won't if the article refragrates.
C. R. Sneeke
Quarterback, 1908 K.U. Team
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 36 Thursday, November 3, 1938 No. 38
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CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: The Creative Leisure Commission will have a bicycle trip Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6. Those going should get their bicycles before hand and meet in South Park at 2:30 Please bring 15 cents for a lunch. Anyone interested can contact Marcie Willey, Charles Yeeans, co-chairman.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION. The Freshman Commission of the YAOZA, will hold a meeting at 4:30 p.m., May 21, in Room A, Mission Hall. Mission work of last week will be discussed. All freshmen men are invited—George Ketner, Vince
REINTERPTATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The joint Y.M. and Y.W. Commission will meet Friday at 4:30 in the Pino room of the Union building, discuss the meaning of prayer—Ezekiel Stuckenburg.
PI LAMBDA THETA: There will be pledge service at 7:30 this evening in the Pine Room of the National Library.
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New Chairman of Language Department Likes Athletics
(The following is one of a series of interviews with new staff members. Others will appear at irregular intervals.)
By Richard MacCann, c'40
A man well-known among language scholars has come to the University of Kansas as chairman of the department of romance languages. And his main reason for liking the university? Because it "tops in basketball."
Professor Shemaker teaches Spanish—meaning such courses as Spanish literature and early English drama. Besides penning numerous articles on the sixteenth and seventeenth century theater, he is an active leader of the Modern Language Association, being at present secretary of the Spanish Discussion Group II. His is a dramatic family, for his wife was formerly a coach at an Illinois college.
For a time he was a student of th violin, but remains now an appreciative- perhaps he means sympathetic-auditor. He heads Life and the New Yorker chiefly, and writes for here comes the crux of the story—the Hispanic Review, the Johns Hopkins Journal, and the like.
William H. Shoemaker is athletic. Anyone that's tried to walk with him knows that. He's a tennis enthusiast and his partiality for basketball dates back to boarding-school days in Buckets County, Pennsylvania. At Princeton he played on the junior varsity, meanwhile read by many. And when he came back to Princeton to teach, Professor Shoemaker couldn't resist the fun of working out regularly with the freshman squad.
It is with a thrill of pride that we announce our discovery of a genius on Mount Oread, although it may be something of a shock to the readers to know that the genius is none other than our contemporary on the front page, Mr. James Richard Roberson. (Emily Post says it is always good form to refer to a genius as "Mister.")
notes and discords
by John Pardelah Two
Yesterday, we visited Spooner-Thayer museum with Mr. Robertson to view the Higgins exhibition. Personally, we liked every painting until Robertson with his superior knowledge pointed out that they were all lousy. "I can do better myself," he entirely denied, delicately with our entire collection with a wave of his hand. We pointed to a Homer oil—our favorite picture in the permanent collection. Robertson didn't like it. "I can do better with one arm in a sling," he answered. In awake before this man of talent, we defted our hat and followed the Shuster through the entire gallery. We hasten to report that there is one item Robertson can not do better or at least improve on. He said so himself.
by John Randolph Tye
Why then is this talent wasted in writing the Shin? He should be in studios studying at the Julian. Just as soon as the band collection is out of the way, and Gene Kemper's Topeka alumni have raised their fund to investigate the Daily Kansan, this department will embark on a drive to raise money to enable Robertson to finish his art education. To be sure we have not as yet seen any of his canvases, but if the young man can paint better than Anna Broberg, Berger Sanzen, or Winslow Homer (and Robertson says he can), who are to demand further proof?
The man who plays the radio at the Union building thinks that the referee at the Manhattan game must have been cheated because he whistled while he worked.
The tiny country of Liechtenstein which is situated between Austria and Switzerland has decided not to annex the Venus de Milo, that makes two.
Quill Club to Meet
From the Concordia Blade-Empire comes this suggestion about running the University. (Someday it seems that almost every person in the state has at least one suggestion about running the University.) "Since it seems to be generally agreed that the young man who penned a highly critical editorial in the University Daily Kansas was the lug who brought the Jayhawk football team to a fighting freeway when he penned the massacre of the Kansas State club Saturday afternoon, we think that he's entitled to a varsity letter for his fine work—and better still—should be permitted to continue his quarterbacking for the rest of the season."
Members of Quill Club will meet at 8 p.m. today in the northern most room in the basement of Fraser hall.
Yes, he has visited Spain. At least he traveled through a beautiful land south of France that answered to that name a few years ago (in 1927 and 1934). The Society of today is for all and spectacle that needs no comment.
"There are so many Spains" he exclaims, with a broad, despairing gesture. "Catalonians, Andalusians, Basques... there are even more Spains that there are 'United States'... . I liked the cities best - Madrid - Barcelona. . . The Moorish architecture is beautiful."
It was on a trip to Spain that he first became acquainted with Prof. J. M. Osma of the University Spanish faculty. They met in Paris and toured many of the Berrian provinces together.
The new department head is not yet acclimated to Kansas weather. He comes from a long line of Pennsylvania Quakers and his move westward is something of a pioneering expedition. Though he "likes it here very much" he protests that the heat is something terrible.
But he may rest assured that the weather is really "very unusual."
Burton Fisher, gr. and John Piecey, c39, debated informally on peace and collective security at a meeting of the Current Actions Commission of the YM.C.A. and immediately afternoon in Henley House.
"Peace is not an abstraction, but it is a state of configuration by which we can maintain democracy," according to Fisher.
Y.M.-Y.W.Debaters Attack War
an answering what is meant by "peace," Piercey said peace cannot be maintained by war, but rather for tortile abstinence from confinement.
The war-maker should be isolated through collective action of the democratic countries. Fisher maintains to fight for peace if necessary to fight for peace if necessary
"War is not a sudden break," Fisher, "but rather a whole series of events leading up to a conflagration of war, viewed from view, then there is always war."
"Any European wars are fought for the re-allocation of natural resources, and because the imperialistic system need colonies" and said that "the United States does not need to become implicated in foreign wars."
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turn out their freshmen in a body for the torchlight parade. He issued a last appeal for all students to join the parade regardless of costume.
Will Film Parade
Sergent Kollender reported that the lighting possibilities for this year has been trebled. A local theater has added the committee by procuring floodlights and overboard overhead lights. Motion pictures will be taken of this event.
The Jay James and Ku Ku's will participate, and student hoboes will compete for prize money to be awarded for the cleverest and most original flails. The parade will end rivally. WREN, where a radio calls will be held.
The National Guard unit of Law-
rence will assist the city police in
keeping traffic clear along the route
of march.
"I hope that every student will turn out for the parade, and be there promptly at 7 o'clock," said A. E Wostemeyer, chairman of the general Homecoming committee, yesterday.
Will Be Evening Dance
Following the parade and rally to-morrow evening there will be a free mixer dance held at the Memorial Hall room, open to students and volunteers.
House decoration plans for the celebration are being completed by 41 organized houses.
R. H. 'Dick' Wagstaff, 23, chairman of the House-Decorations committee, declared yesterday that competition for prizes offered will be in three divisions: fraternities, sororites and women's dormitories. Wagstaff expressed the hope that the nurses' home would also join the inter group although there is nothing definite to that effect.
Prizes Will Be Announced Today
Prizes for the winners in each division will be announced later today.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening, and Saturday, the Jay Janes and the
W. S.G.A. will maintain a registration and information table in the Memorial Union building. At 11 o'clock Saturday morning a second generation picture will be taken in front of center Frank Strong ball.
The homecoming queen, who was elected by the Jayhawk team last week, will be presented at the rally tomorrow evening, and again with
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