PAGE TWO P UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 192 Comment As a Final Plea--- Just One More Day Last minute "cramming" may be the bane of professors' lives, but it has been the ministering angel to untold generations of college students. Eleventh hour review, if done calmly and determinedly, may mean the difference between failure and a passing mark. But those of us who are usually unfortunate enough to have one and possibly two examinations in the morning and afternoon following the last class day are denied this opportunity. We have one short evening to review a semester's work. Even those few students who do not indulge in this "cramming" process will surely not object to a day of rest preceding final examinations. A semester's end carries with it numerous extra activities, it brings the deadline to long-delayed term papers, book reports and projects. By the last day, the average student is worn down to a remnant of his usual self and is overpowered by an "it matters not" attitude. A 24-hour period before examinations begin, whether used for relaxation, study, or readjustment to a new situation from four to eight important tests within a week's time, is in order. Surely the petition of the Men's Student Council to the University Senate for a day of "grace" will receive the whole-hearted support of every University student. 'Dumb Bunnies?'-- Naw! Individualists! Are you a "dumb bunny"? Can't make an A and even have a difficult time making an occasional B? Ah, how sad, but dry your eyes on this little morsel of comfort, and "take heart again." The adult life of the child who always gets A's in school may develop into anything but a bed of roses is the conclusion of certain psychologists and educators. Dr. Robert N. McMurry, executive secretary of the Chicago branch of the Psychological corporation said of the child who never fails to get an A. "That sort of a child is likely to grow up to be a conformist—a person who never blazes new trails—the sort of person who accepts what is told him without question. The pattern of what the teacher says is carried over into adult life. He is not likely to be a leader or a dynamic individual." This description may be applied to college students too. We as college students accept what our instructors tell us without thinking or reasoning about it. Many of us never try to digest the facts and make them our own. We cram and depend on our memory to store facts until we have a test. We follow grades instead of interests. So you see, we aren't really "dumb bunnies." We are individuals—progressive thinkers of the first water. Kow-tow to more figures and letters called grades? No, sir! not we! We are non-conformists, and nothing else. A Rational Animal! Well--It Depends-fine a situation in mutually understandable terms. We often read or hear of man as a "rational being." Man is what he is because he is—"rational." And so, we suppose he must be. But there are times when we look with askance upon this theory, even though certain facts do seem to make it reasonable. For example: Have you ever watched a crowd of persons being "rational" at a football game? Of course it is reasonable to desire such things as: "kill that umpire!" "bust that end!" and other such "rational" though hilarious actions. But you haven't noticed probably, because you would be too busy doing your share of "rationalizing." June is a great month for rationalism especially among us who are young and not especially sympathetic with the ascetic tendencies which Paul held to be so commendable. Have you never sat beneath the moon with another rational human of similar age, opposite sex, and great attractiveness, and just "rationalized" to your heart's content? We recall that the great philosopher, Schopenhauer, once pursued a woman through most of Europe, only to return home in dejected failure to write of women that they "are squat, broad-broad creatures" with no redeemable virtues. Now Schopenhauer, as Mark Anthony might have put it, "was a rational man." And to continue in the same view of treatment the oracular Mark might have accorded. "So are we all—all rational men." All of which merely leads us back to our first contention: "Men are rational beings." But what do we mean by rational? As we have described it, it would seem to embrace a host of ambivalent emotions, for primarily we imply reason when we use the term. The sociologist would say that to be rational, a man must be in a social situation he understands, and that to co-operate rationally, he must be able to define a situation in mutually understandable terms. But here we have a term that is only theoretically mutually understandable. We use it so freely and often in conveying our ideas but what do we mean by it? If the sociologist's concept is right, then "rationalism" presupposes a great deal and the term as commonly used is often wrong. If, on the other hand, the term is right, then it would seem that the world itself—refusing to fit consistently—is wrong. Campus Opinion Another Marble Player Editor, Daily Kansan: Say, what is all this "Prepared" business? Is it some kind of series? To date we have letters signed "Prepared" (was he fighting mad!) "Amused" (and not too amusing) "Now Prepared for Anything" and "Prepared for the Worst!" And, oh my gosh, now I'm contributing! So far these people have been very brave and virel and outspoken, but what have they said? I'm no little Beake Carter, but I don't need to be told that the Japanese are being mean to the Chinese, nor that the ordinary run of poor Japanese taxiper isn't actually the new incarnation of His Satanic Majesty, or that America is going to be sorry if it doesn't watch out. And I'll wager there are lots, just LOTS of students who don't want to pay attention to square deal and one remarkably little coaching on how best to need their country. Furthermore, I don't like the attitude of "Prepared for the Worst." He wants to talk about marbles and he hasn't read the first letter by "Prepared. The He knows how Prepared we are, not down to seem real to that fellows like "Prepared" don't grow on every bush. No, sir. Not in EVERY bush. I maintain that "Prepared for the Worst" should have given the American Cricket attention before contributing his bit to the series. Well, I'm willing to do him a good turn in spite of that, and tip him off that he spikes better than he spikes well. He'll hell be "perverse" back into Rhetoric 0 and that it's not being "Prepure for the Worst," that's getting it not! Sure. I Play Marbles, Too. Official University Bulletin Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:50 a.m. Vol. 35 Wednesday, February 16, 1938 No. 95 --lived on Park Avenue but he took his readers through Central Park, great department stores, slums, along the river and to fires. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LECTURE: Mr. G. Newell bewall w i 114 lecture on "Contemporary American Poetry" at 3:30 this afternoon in 205 Brasser to freshman students — W. S. Johnson, Department of English. ELECTION OF HOB-NAIL HOP QUEEN. The election of the queen for the Hob-Nail Hop will be held today at the book exchange in the engineering building. Pictures of the nonines will be posted on the bulletin board in the engineering building—Proctor Ritchie. EDUCATION FACULTY MEETING: The faculty meeting will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 21, in 115 Fresno E. H. Lindley, Chancellor FALL SEMESTER GRADES: Grades for the fall semester may be obtained from the Registrar's offer this week, according to the following schedule o r mapo. Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday ... N to S inclusive T to Z inclusive These unable to appear at George O. Foster Registrar FEDERATION OF COUNSELLORS: There will be a meeting of the Federation of Counsellors at 4:30 this afternoon in the Pine room. Please try to be there if at all possible—Dorothy Trokel, President. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: The International Relations Club will meet Thursday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. in the Pine room of the Union building—Kathryn Turner, Secretary. JAY JANES: There will be a meeting at 4 30 p.m. in the lounge of the union building -Roberta Cook SPANISH CLUB: At El Teneto will meet Thursday in 113 Administration building to discuss a plan by Leon Reynolds. All prospective new members are invited to attend Refreshments will be served—Karl Ruppenthal, Press W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a W.S.G.A. tea afternoon from 3 until 5 o'clock in the lounge of the Administration building. All University women are invited—Bette Wasson, Secretary. Official Student Payer of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan MANAGING EDITOR MARVIN GOBEL CAMPUS EDITOR BILL TYLER AND GEOGE CLANE NEW BOOK EDITOR DOROTHY NEILTHERON SOCIETY EDITOR DOROTHY NEILTHERON SPORTS EDITOR ELON TORNEKEN MARGARET MARTIN JEAN THOMAS ROWE REWRITE EDITOR DICK MARTIN TELEGRAPH EDITOR HARRY HILE TEDDY EDITOR JEAN TYLER Editorial Staff EDITOR-IN-CHEF ADDITIONAL AUTHORS MARTIN BENTSON AND DAVID KENNY KENNY LEWIS 1937 Member 1938 Associated College Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest DAVID E. PARTRIDGI PUBLISHER News Staff BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUINTIN BROWN REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 242 ADMION AVE. NEW YORK, N.Y. CHICAGO BOSTON GAN FRANCISCO LO ANDELES PORTLAND BRATTLE A Nation Will Mourn Passing of Odd McIntyre Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. He died today also in Lawrence, Kans, in Plattsburg, Mo., where he was born and in Gallipolis, Ohio which he regarded as "home," and in every one of the nearly 400 towns whose newspapers carried his daily column, for all these people knew him intimately. O. O. McIntyre died this week in New York City. Bv Uarda Sherry, c'40 Well to begin with, once he wrote a rather unimportant little column in the daily newspapers. Occasionally in a popular magazine his name would appear under an article that might have dogs as its subject, often his subject might be biographical, and when it was, the reader always found a poignant word picture of a quiet country town. In a rocking chair on the front of an old wooden table a pleasant faced grandmother and at her feet lounged a gawky boy whose eyes were filled with dreams. Who was this man, McIntyre? Had a 'Hankering' The boy grew up, went to college, courted his first girl and married her. His career? He seemed to have a "hankering" as his Gradma would have said, for newspaper work and he became successively, a reporter in Gallipoli, a feature writer in East Liverpool, Ohio, a managing editor in Dayton, and city editor in Cincinnati. That isn't important - it isn't important that he spent some time as dramatic editor of one magazine and as associate editor of another—for in 1912, he began his daily column in New York and it is that column by which he was known. What did he write? Was it politics, sports, news? None of these things. What Did He Write? Marguard, Mo., Feb. 15—(UP)—The Rev. Noel Bremner, preacher for the Church of the Nazarean, believes that a mixture of beer and the Bible will bring about the salivation of this Ozark community. Preacher Uses Tavern Pulpit In the Ozarks When Bremner, an itinerant preacher, came to Marquand he was unable to find a church where he could conduct revival services. He complained to Murphy Myers, proprietor of the "Dead Horse Imm," a beer tavern near the city limits, a beer tavern in New York, and presch in the layer, every night. Since that time Bremner hasn't missed a single evening at the tavern, where promptly at 7:30 he hangs out his hand-painted signs, informing everyone that the tavern is now a church, and begins to preach. Patrons of the tavern like it, Myers says, and the revival services have proved a real boon to the beer business, as many persons who come for the preaching stay on for a few glasses of beer. Editor Cupid Permits Puns In Valentines The streamlined Valentine goes in for puns and plays on words. Yet the missives only say in another way the thought expressed in these words, sent on a Valentine to Catherine, wife of Henry V: New York — (UP) — The little winged boy bow boy is a sentimentalist, judging from 1833 Valentines. The sentiment; however, is expressed in a strictly up-to-date way. "I love on which excellently allie." Designs show definitely the influence of contemporary decorative thought in elimination of unnecessary details; in the use of modern pastel shades enlivened by metallic touches, and in conventionalized motifs. The modern girl, according to lines appearing on Valentines, is expected to send many a February 14 message. Verse are a bit casual and offhand for the most part, but they mean a message of love just the same. He wrote of head writers, celebri- ties, actresses, opera singers, down and outs, and with the turn of his pen returned to Gallipolis and his boyhood days. He could describe the happiness of a little crippled man, louded a perfect handkerchief on the street beside his stand or cut through with clarity to give a picture of the pseudo- great. More Than a Hundred Students Enroll for Reading Course With more than one hundred students signed up for the special course for the improvement of reading technique, regular assignments in the course will begin next week. Each student enrolled will be notified by postcard the exact time for his first appointment. This week has been devoted to eye-testing, and the making of other records necessary as preliminary to the course. Prof. Bert A. Nah, who is in charge of the work, asks that any student who has not yet had the preliminary tests, do so this week. Chancellor Returns Yesterday From American Medical Meeting Dr. E. H. Lindley returned to Lawrence yesterday morning from Chicago where he has been attending a seminar on the American Medical Association. This evening the Chancellor will speak on "Education in the Machine Age" at the Kansas State College Founders' day banquet in Manhattan will accommodate her husband on the trip and will attend the banquet. Brothers and Sisters Visit Southwestern Students Winfield, Feb. 2. The past week was devoted by Southwestern College students to showing off their brothers and sisters. This was the first attempt made by the student bracket for a "brother and sister" day. As the first courtesy extended the visitors, they were admitted free to the Hays-Southwestern game on Friday night. On Saturday morning, the guests had a chance to exhibit a variety of talent at the assembly program they presented. Two piano solos, a xylophone solo, a twirling exhibition, a 'cello solo, and a tap dance were features of the program. Brothers and Sisters were picked as to the closest resemblances at the conclusion of the program. The judges were unable to eliminate any two, so eight groups were declared equal sharers of the honors. College Women Younger. Pittsburg Survey Shows Pittsburgh, Kan—That college girls at K.S.T.C. here are getting younger, taller and heavier is shown by data collected for a period of more than twenty years by the department of physical education for women. This year's survey shows freshman women to have an average height of 5 feet, 3.49 inches. This is an increase of one-half inch over that of 1928, and more than one-fourth inch over that of 1932. The average weight this year's 119.79 pounds as compared with 118.7 pounds in 1932. A recent survey of 17,000 college women from all sections of the United States shows that the average 18-year-old college woman is 5 feet, 3.69 inches tall and weighs 129.48 pounds. BUY A MEAL TICKET and Save 10% $2.75 Value for $2.50 UNION FOUNTAIN Sub-basement Memorial Union Just Arrived! New Stock of With Lasting Rubber Soles SANITREAD JAPANESE SHOWER SANDALS All sizes — 50c "See us for fine shoe repairing" ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP W. E. WHETSTONE, Prop. 1017 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. Phone 686 U. S. Leads In Industrial Expenditures Pittsburgh, Penn, Feb 15—(UP)—The United States spent $100,000,000 last year to lead all other nations in the field of industrial research, according to a world survey read to the American Chemical Society by Dr William A. Hamor, assistant director of the Institute of Industrial Research. The never-ending search for new products and materials has led to scientific experiments on almost every conceivable subject and in many countries novel synthetics have opened a new era of solvents, plastics, paints, pharmaceuticals and perfumes. Doctor Hamer said. Smaller Nations Active Hundreds of scientific investigations are underway in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, India, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Brazil, Chile, Denmark Honduras, Guatemala, Norway and Palestine. The report, a comprehensive outline of research activities throughout the world, reveals that experiments flourish in the smaller as well as the larger nations. Switzerland, Doctor Hamor reports, holds European leadership in pharmaceutical research. The demand for insecticides has resulted in reorganization of Palmae industry. German chemists are aiding Brazilian authorities in search of new uses for surplus coffee. Doctor Hamor summarized research activity in this country in a separate report. Spodumene, most plentiful of the lithium-bearing ores, has been put to work to produce lithium chloride for use in the conditioning and drying of air, the American report showed. "Experiments in Texas have shown that the addition of carbon black to concrete gives a highway a dark luster that reduces glaze. Vitamin A is being produced from fish-liver oils by molecular distillation. Food preservation is being investigated on a carbon black can be used for filtration from silica and by a iron frotation process. The electrolytic reduction of sugars to corresponding alcohols has been carried out on a commercial basis. Silver Used for Bearings "Silver bearings are employed in high-power aviation engines. High-octane anti-knock gasolines at lower cost promise increased fuel efficiency for airplanes. Specially treated lubricants enable much higher bearing pressures. Heat-treated cast iron are used for gears and other machine parts which were previously constructed of steel. The manufacture of carbon dioxide-filled incandescent lamps has been perfected." Other recent products of American research, according to Doctor Hamor, include cellulose sponges; synthetic ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, prepared from sorbitol, which, in turn, is made from corn sugar; new adhesives from synthetic resins; plastic wood; rapid-drying ink; electrolytically colored metals; new pigment dyes; new compounds for use as wetting agents; novel emulsifying agents; an organic base said to be as strong as sodium hydroxide; new plasticizers, such as naphthyl-beta-mercaptan for rubber, and tetraphosphoric acid. Buffalo Girl Sings Way Into Salzburg Festival Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 15. — (UP) — Like a hero from a Horatio Alger story, an attractive 25-year-old girl who never trilled a note in public until she was 15 has received international music honors. According to Walter Hoeshteite, general director of the festival, Miss McClung will be one of two Americans ever allowed to appear in such a program. Famed directors to appear at the festival will be Willie Max Reinhardt, Bruno Walter and Bernard Paungerart, leader of the Salzburg Mozart Orchestra, who will direct during Miss McClung's appearance. The invitation came nine years after Miss McClung rose in a crowded Kankakee, Ill., school auditorium in 1929 and sang a melody that led her into a career. She had never uttered a note before, not even to sing a hymn in church, according to her parents. Marjorie McClung, daughter of the pastor of a Methodist church here, has been invited to appear as guest solist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Music Festival in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 6. She went on to win the school contest and district championship and placed fourth in the statewide finals. So she was sent to the School of Music at the University of Michigan, where she won scholarships which enabled her to study voice in Berlin and Vienna. 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