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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20.1938
The Kansan Comments
From Dilemma To Dilemma
From the perplexities of a dilemma to the mire of a quandary, and out of it to the conflicts of a predicament, back to dilemma, the central European crisis travels by press wires, planes, and army tanks in a never-ending, vicious circle.
Bordering on the incredulous, the proposals which the British have persuaded the French to agree with amount to surrender of the Sudeten areas to Germany without a plebiscite, curtailment of Czechoslovakian defense measures by canceling its Russian and French alliances coupled with a proposed guarantee of the remaining frontiers, and changing the Czech government into a cantonal system. Thus the democracies bow in subservience to Hitler
Acting to preserve threatened peace at any cost to the Czechs, will the end justify the means? Will peace in central Europe be established? Or is just another breathing spell ahead?
Consider German army mobilization, the parades of tanks, the mass flights of planes, the streams of men to the Sudeten border, the press campaign and planned disorders in the disturbed region which have shaken the tightly-drawn nerves of Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Deladier, Georges Bonnet and other statemen. Is it not possible for this to be dramatically repeated by Germany in Hitler's march to the east?
And dispatches from Prague predict blunt rejection by the dumbfounded Czechoslovakian governmental heads of the capitulation to Adolf Hitler. A Prague spokesman emphatically stated that "for the Czechs the die is cast—we have prepared and are resolved to defend our country to the last." Remember that 600-000 troops were previously mobilized in short order by President Benes in the Sudeten region.
Then, too, is "Sudetenland" populated exclusively up to 90 per cent by German-speaking people. According to Dorothy Thompson the German-speaking people reach such percentages only in spots, numbering less than 50 per cent in many others, and do not live in a continuous chain of territory. In fact, they lived in practically every district of Czechoslovakia long before 1918. Why not allow Hitler to "protect" the entire country? And when Hitler annexes "Sudetenland" what is to become of the Czechs who compose one-third of the population? The answer is obvious.
Continuing, the vicious circle travels from dilemma to quandary, from quandary to predicament, and from predicament to dilemma.
Even though Joe College screams to high heaven about the high cost of the educational process, he may consider himself fortunate in not having a gas mask handed out with his activity ticket.
College Can't Work Miracles
Parents often expect too much of colleges as their respective sons and daughters trek to the various campuses. They invest money and time to give Johnny more years in the educative process so that "he'll have an easier time than when I was a kid." Without considering the raw material or previous training, fathers especially, who foot the bills, want a finished product that approaches the combined product of a finishing school, riding academy, business college, and Dale Carnegie's courses.
Four years of attending a school of higher learning will often mold raw material into an modern, streamlined product. But in all likelihood, the process of college education will not teach the student how to look for a job; his manners shan't improve unless he attends a modern culture school that goes in for social training: he'll have little association with his professors, unless he seeks it and he usually doesn't; and if he does not possess the gift of public speaking, college seldom teaches him how to give a good talk in a conversational voice that can be heard; he will probably enter the business world as trusting as a lamb; and he isn't let in on the secret that the world isn't waiting impatiently for him to step out and take over.
Of course, the college graduate with his degree is not as naive as this. And for the next four years, college is probably the best place for the average high school graduate. But parents, and the freshman himself, should dispel the illusions that warp realization of what to expect from the finished product.
After Enrollment Then What?
You come to the University and you get registered and enrolled and started in your classes, and then you begin to wonder about what else you ought to do in order to get the most out of "your college education". You begin to nibble tentatively at the bail offered by these things known as 'extra-curricular activities' and then you get scared and stop and wonder just how much of a load you ought to take on this first year on the Hill.
You've heard that these college courses are different from the ones in high school. You've heard that you have to work about twice as hard to make your grades as you did before, and you've seen enough already—by way of assignments—to believe there may be something in it. too.
Then you begin thinking about the guys or gals from the old home town who came to college and you begin analyzing what they did. First, there was little Herman Hurtz. He came to school and spent all his time burning the midnight oil at his desk or pouring over colossal tomes in the library. He made all “A’s,” but you never knew he existed at all, unless you happened to glance over the honor roll at the end of each semester. Poor Herman laid a pretty unpleasant life. You decide definitely that you don't want to live like Herman.
Then you remember big Billie Blurp. He came to college, too—but not for long. He joined the Capers Club, and made the football team, the Dramatic Club, the Glee Club, the Peace Commission, and the Sour Owl staff. You heard plenty about Bill, all right. Only the second semester seemed to go wrong, and he flanked out of school. "Too many irons in the fire," the dean said. That wouldn't do at all.
But how about Wilfred Wynner? He came to college too, and he belonged to everything Billie Blurp did and maybe a couple extra. And four years later, when he graduated, he brought home a wife and a Phi Beta Kappa key, too Maybe you’re like Wilfred!
And maybe you're not. Maybe you're just an ordinary guy or gal who made pretty fair grades in high school without working too hard, and belonged to the pep club, and the band, and had a lot of fun doing what you did, even though you didn't set the world on fire with anything.
Then maybe the thing for you to do is to pick out the one or two organizations you'd like to join most, or the one or two activities you'd rather enter most, and—GET STARTED! Don't spend your first year, or even your first semester, just shopping around and trying to make up your mind between this and that. If you wait until next year, you may find that Jimmy Jones, who came to the University the same week you did, has already capped that extra-turricular position you had picked for yourself.
Statting that the idea of a better world in the future is a "fallacy of the doctrine of progress." Thomas Mann writes for readers 5,000 years hence that "optimistic conception of the future is a projection into time of an endeavor which does not belong to the temporal world the endeavor on the part of man to approximate to his idea of himself, the humanization of man."
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 30 Tuesday, September 28, 1955 No. 5
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:10 a.m.
Saturday for Sunday issue.
ENGLISH MAJORS: Students desiring to enroll in Reading for Hons in English, especially those wishing to enroll for the first time, will please see Miss Burham in 211 Fresher hall, or Sept. 20 or 21, between 1 and 12 or between 2 and 4. Kindly bring transcript.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: All junors in the College of Liberal Arts are urged to register for the Proficiency Examination to be held on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 9:00 a.m. Registration is at the College Office, Room 121 Frank Strong Hall, Sept. 26-29. Only students who have registered will be admitted to the examination.
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Summer Session Students 'Junketed' About Campus
By Agnes Mummert, c'40 If you're one of the students who dashed down the Hill after finals last spring, throw away those once valuable class notes, and ziped up the notebook you'd slaved over in school. You may have been under the impression that the University was of the same opinion and sat back and eased through the summer.
By Agnes Mumert, c'40
As a matter of fact over a thousand students were on the Hill last summer—while you were selling washing machines, herding turkeys, trekking out to California, pounding a typewriter, or whatever it was you did—and they were a part of the most complete recreational program ever attempted during Summer Session.
Landes Shows Rocks
One of the new features was the Campus Junket (Webster says the word is used "often, especially in the U. S.; approbriably, an outing or pleasure excursion at the public cost) in charge of Miss Elizabeth Dinkel, assistant professor of physical education. The junks occurred within a ceremony and witnessed of tours to interesting spots on the campus.
Students attending the second all-University Junket trekked over to the observatory where R. Stanley Alexander, assistant instructor in physics, demonstrated and explained how a parasat, including a sidereal clock used by astronomers to measure fine by the stars.
At the first, the exhibition which Dr. K. K. Landes, professor of geology has collected in the last several years, was shown. Specimens of opal, florite, calcite, garnet, and tin oxide in a matrix of calcite were arranged on a red velvet background. Ultra-violet light was used thus changing the color of the background to a deep purple. It was demonstrated that a piece of glazed pottery, ordinary while appearing in daylight, becomes curiously mottled under ultra-violet light, while a prosaic bit of brown stone appears with yellow. Students. See Stars
Students See Stars
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The Iola Register reports that a Kansas bootleader is mingling about hard times and considering going on relief. "All my good customers," he says, "have gone to college."
A sophomore who enrolls for an 8:30 class has no one but himself to blame.
--one diorama shows the Paweon Indians engages in pottery making. A kneeling woman builds the wall of a jar by coiling a strip of soft clay and pressing it in place. In the distance workers lahs poles together to a framework for brush and soot that will make a weedshoot.
If you haven't read William Allen White's "Moscow and Emporia" in the current New Republic, you should.
Tip to freshmen: It really isn't necessary to bone up for the Wasserman test.
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Headline in the Chanute Tribune:
"A widow to carry on." That's not surprising, especially if there was much insurance.
By he way, what ever happened to the war in China?
This week saw the departure from the campus of Martin Maloney, ae writer, actor, public speaker, poet and raconteur. Maloney, who will work on his doctor's degree at Northwestern, will be missed by the dramatic arts, speech, radio, and English departments. From the lads who suffered under him in Rhetoric zero or from the more ambitious souls who like to enter contests with a 50-50 chance to win.
While students peered at the moon through the 8-inch telescope in the dome, Mr. Alexander explained that it is impossible to magnify the image of a star. Planets and the moon may appear in great detail through the telescope, but a star is seen only as a point of light.
A series of six dioramas, similar to those made by Bernard Frazier, and designed under the auspices of the WPA museum project were shown a week later to interested students in Robinson gymnasium.
A 21-inch telescope which is used only for photographic purposes, and the spectroscope which breaks the light from distant stars next to the telescope is probably the most powerful instrument used in astronomy, were displayed.
These dioramas, which are authenticate in detail and which have been carefully and durably constructed, are to be copied and placed in museums at Leawerthown, Topeka. These dioramas were tray the life of the Osage, Cheyenne Kiowa, Pawnee and Comanche Indian tribes.
"We wish the election would get out of the way so that the report of the committee named last winter to investigate the red menace at the U.S. Capitol would be refused," comments Jack Harris. In The Hutchinson News.
Add to the list of Mount Oread immortals the junior who only this week heard on the Pioneer and doesn't believe it's true.
Display Dioramas
In another, the Comanche, one of the largest of the nomadic tribes, is shown as it passes Pawnee Rock in what is known as Barton county.
Two subsequent junkets were made of a tour of Spooner-Thayer museum and a lecture by Oren Schwarz at University Photographic Bureau.
Learn of Photography
Mr. Bingham gave special emphasis to color photography, showing vacation and Campus scenes in from his varied collection of prints. Campus Hour ended in the usual morning hours, almost always the early evening about the difficulties confronting the amateur photographer.
that every new officer of the Independent Student association must take a vow not to pledge Phi Fli during his term of office?
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Those who like their reading matter light, short, and with just the right amount of satire will find G. B. Stern's "The UglY Dash-ness" since the adventures of Ferdinand, the ball who wouldn't fight.
With Rollo Nuckels heressing to do "Hamlet"-tights and all—and Ken Postweale, caustic critic of the seven acts, quietly sharpening his situation on the Thespian front remains pregnant with suspense.
Form Marbles Board For Schoolboy Sport
London (U.P.)—A "Marbles Control Board" has been formed at Tennis Green, the traditional home of he sport so popular with schoolboys.
Is there any truth in the rumor
For more than 350 years, it is definitely established, marbles have been played at Tinsley Green, on the borders of Sussex and Surrey, the championship match being played there on Good Friday every year. The marble has a hardback of the Greyhound Im, ancient hostelry of Tinsley Green.
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Enthusiasts of Tinsley Green formed the board to rule on "upstart champions."
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